Jörg Kreienbrock studied German Literature, Comparative
Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld and
the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in
2005 from the Department of German at New York University with
a dissertation thesis examining representations of the small
and minute in the prose works of Robert Walser. From 2005 to
2006 he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of
German Studies at Emory University. In 2006 he joined the German
Department of Northwestern University as Assistant Professor.

His research and teaching interests include German literature from the 18th to the 21st century with an emphasis on literary theory, contemporary literature, and popular culture. Professor Kreienbrock is the author of two books: Kleiner. Feiner. Leichter: Nuancierungen zum Werk Robert Walsers, Berlin, Zurich: Diaphanes 2010. And Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature, New York: Fordham University Press 2012.